Flock, the controversial surveillance company, pitched a plan to turn Uber and Lyft drivers into a network of roaming surveillance vehicles by using their dashcams to scan license plates, according to…
A July 10 audit by the Los Angeles Police Department Office of the Inspector General found that the department's automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras generated 161 false stolen-vehicle alerts…
Flock Safety pitched a plan to use 350,000 rideshare and delivery dashcams to scan license plates, according to a report from 404 Media. The proposal, which would involve Uber and Lyft drivers, aims t…
ISBNdb, a book data tracking company, briefly offered AI training data from destructive book scanning, which involves slicing spines off books and recycling pages, before pivoting away after public ba…
Suno, the AI song-generation platform, announced plans on Thursday to introduce watermarking, fingerprinting, and a new downloads policy to make AI-generated music more transparent, aiming to protect …
SAP, one of the world's biggest software companies, suspended most travel and hiring last month because of AI's soaring cost, with exceptions only for AI-related travel or hires, according to an inter…
Microsoft is limiting AI token usage by its employees, with each department allocated a pool of tokens, as the company seeks to control rising AI costs. Executive Vice President Jay Parikh communicate…
404 Media's weekly podcast covers Samuel Tunick, who faces prison for allegedly wiping his GrapheneOS phone before DHS officials could search it, and an AI-powered TikTok Shop scheme promoting FDA-rec…
Microsoft is limiting engineers' AI usage by making OpenAI GPT-5.6 the default internal model and introducing an 'AI token budget target' for divisions, as stated in an email from EVP Jay Parikh obtai…
Jonathan Paz, a former government affairs manager at Flock, quit the company in July 2025, alleging it lied about its AI-powered license-plate cameras' use and silenced critics. Paz said Flock gave IC…
Anthropic's Claude AI chat service has exposed users' private conversations, including cryptocurrency wallet keys, addresses, and medical billing data, through publicly accessible shareable links inde…
404 Media reported that an AI-powered TikTok Shop operation produced and sold dietary supplements that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recalled, highlighting the risks of AI-generated cont…
Google pulled its Google Earth AI image generator within 24 hours of its July 30, 2026 launch after researchers demonstrated it could fabricate photorealistic images of bomb craters near the Kremlin, …
Google has pulled its new AI-powered Google Earth image generation feature just 24 hours after launch, following tests by researchers and media outlets that showed it could fabricate convincing fake s…
Google pulled its new AI image-generation feature from Google Earth on Friday, one day after its launch, following widespread criticism that the tool, powered by Nano Banana 2, enabled users to create…
Google shipped an AI tool on July 30 that let users fabricate photorealistic satellite imagery on real coordinates, including nuclear plants in Iran and bomb craters in Gaza, then pulled the feature a…
Google removed an AI image-generation feature from Google Earth on July 31, a day after its July 30 launch, following backlash from journalists and researchers who showed it could fabricate convincing…
LinkedIn will allow users to flag posts they believe are AI-generated, a feature reported by 404 Media on August 1, 2026. The move aims to address the proliferation of AI slop on the professional netw…
LinkedIn is testing a 'seems like AI slop' button that lets users flag posts suspected of being AI-generated, following a 404 Media report estimating that 41% of long-form and 30% of short-form posts …
Google introduced an AI feature in Google Earth on Thursday that lets users fabricate satellite imagery, such as adding a drone strike or a nuclear plant in Iran, raising concerns among open source in…